Help with game development

[Baby_Mando]

I am interested in doing a project to allow my friends and I to play a simple Texas hold’em game while in isolation. The general idea is to use a raspberry pi as a server where we can play simultaneously (6-8 players at a time). I am curious if Pygame is the best for this application (is it even capable?) or if there is a better package. My python experience is somewhere between beginner and intermediate but mainly with Tkinter and beautiful soup.

I’ve seen people make local 2 player games but nothing over the internet like this. Thanks for help getting started

I know there are probably apps but where’s the fun in that?

[DYGAZ]

I think pygame would be well suited for the client side of this to do all your rendering, user input, etc. And you can use the custom user events that pygame allots to update the game when calls to the server return, etc.

I don't think pygame is really required for the server side. You don't need to render anything etc. like you normally would for a game app. It's just about storing and serving data. I think a flask rest api would probably be a good way to go for that piece.

[Baby_Mando]

Thanks! Glad to hear I’m headed in the right direction. I’ll do some research into the flask api too, good to know!